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	GMB - Britain’s General Union - In London
		GMB - Britain’s General Union - In London
		Many members suffer bullying and harassment at work, poor safety, discrimination and the GMB union can has over 115 years experience in representing workers.
		Our union has a proud history of supporting working people, and we constantly look for new ways to improve our services and benefits to ensure that we continue to provide the best service possible.
	www.gmbunion.org (294 words)

	AsdaWatch Issues - Trade Unions
		Now, the GMB are not allowed to come to meet the new intake for the first 6 months - by which time the company's own culture will have been impressed upon the employees, some of whom may not be aware of the role unions play in securing better pay and conditions for them.
		Instead of unions, Asda puts in place groups which it calls 'colleague circles', where workers are invited to air their grievances and put forward suggestions for improvement, but management are under no obligation to act upon anything the workers say.
		GMB member Mohamed Adnam Ali an employee in the Hulme store of Asda Wal-Mart in Manchester was suspended on 27 March 2006 by management after he supplied two GMB application forms to two work colleagues during his break.
	www.asdawatch.org /issues_unions.asp (2460 words)

	GMB union to axe £2m for Labour Party \| Syndication \| Uk News \| News \| Telegraph
		ONE of Labour's biggest union backers is to cut its donations to the party by £2 million over four years, it said yesterday.
		The GMB was particularly angered by Tony Blair's New Year message, in which he promised "unsettling" reforms to the public services, and Alan Milburn's interview in The Telegraph, in which he said the Government's relationship with the private healthcare sector was "not a one-night stand".
		But a GMB spokesman suggested that the union would do as much as it could within Labour Party rules to support candidates opposed to the privatisation of public services in some circumstances.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/03/ngmb03.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/01/03/ixnewstop.html (478 words)

	Union calls for European ban on staff-tracking RFID
		A UK trade union is calling for a Europe-wide ban on supermarkets and other employers using RFID and GPS technology to tag and track staff in the workplace.
		The general workers' union GMB has submitted a report to the European Commission warning that tagging technologies are an invasion of workers' privacy and calling for legislation to restrict its use.
		Paul Kenny, acting GMB general secretary, said in a statement: "GMB is concerned that the EU appears to be blissfully unaware of the possible uses of RFID and GPS-linked wearable computer technology to tag European workers and to seriously invade their right to privacy.
	www.infowars.com /articles/bb/rfid_trade_union_calls_for_eu_ban_on_tracking_chips.htm (239 words)

	British National Party - GMB Union in Race Hate scandal
		The GMB union is an Institutionally Racist trade union that bars BNP members from being members of the union but allows supporters of Islamic extremism, IRA supporters, members of Far Left groups such as Respect, Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party to be members and officials of the union.
		The GMB union has begun to actively incite racism against the indigenous White ethnic communities of Britain, and they must be held legally responsible for the hatred they have incited in their own workers.
		The GMB union was at the forefront of an attack upon our democracy and the rights of British citizens a few short days ago when they joined a coalition of anti-democratic forces in London including the bigot and apologist for terror Ken Livingstone to campaign against the BNP in the forthcoming General Election.
	www.bnp.org.uk /news_detail.php?newsId=204 (785 words)

	Inquiry as GMB leader accused of rigging ballots
		A GMB spokesman said the union leader was the victim of a smear campaign and predicted the allegations, made by internal critics, would prove to be unfounded.
		GMB in-fighting is destabilising the 650, 000-strong union and Mr Curran is locked in a bitter struggle with some of its powerful regional secretaries and factions as he introduces cuts, including lower pensions for the union’s own workers, to tackle a financial crisis.
		The GMB was required to re-run a 2003 election for deputy general secretary after the contest was found to break anti-age discrimination rules; both contests were won by Debbie Coulter, now a member of the Labour party’s ruling national executive committee.
	www.labournet.net /ukunion/0412/gmb1.html (844 words)

	Fishupdate.com: Union to meet private equity group
		The GMB has launched a campaign against private equity companies since it was announced in January that the Hull Birds Eye factory is to close.
		The GMB is also contacting the private equity firm Permira, which bought the Birds Eye/Iglo frozen food business from Unilever for £1.12billion, to request a meeting with managing partner Damon Buffini.
		Meanwilie, the union in Hull is continuing to fight to keep the factory open and that could be the main reason why it wants a meeting with the Permira boss.
	www.fishupdate.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/6645/Union_to_meet_private_equity_group_.html (787 words)

	Britain's General Union (GMB) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Britain's General Union (GMB) has long campaigned for the prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) - such as repetitive strain injury and back conditions - in the workplace and has been at the forefront in securing compensation for injured members.
		The GMB is committed to offering as many services as possible to members.
		GMB is a general union with about 700,000 members.
	www.talkingtech.org /gmb.htm (299 words)

	Union warns temp agencies off Asda - 26 June 2006
		The GMB union is threatening to sue recruitment agencies that provide temporary staff to the supermarket giant Asda.
		The union has written to agencies warning them that it is illegal to provide cover during a strike at 20 of Asda's distribution depots and says it will prosecute if agencies fail to heed its warning.
		The union will post six members at the gates of each depot equipped with surveillance devices to ensure the law is not broken.
	www.thelawyer.com /cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=120654&d=122&h=24&f=46 (354 words)

	Official Frickley Athletic Website
		GMB is a strong, modern, dynamic trade union focused on one thing - protecting their members in the workplace.
		GMB are also the major sponsor of Castleford Tigers RLFC and adding Frickley Athletic FC to their portfolio sees them supporting both the premier Football and Rugby clubs within the Wakefield District.
		Jerry Nelson, Regional Secretary of GMB Union’s Yorkshire and North Derbyshire Region enthused, “ The GMB Union is delighted to become Main Sponsor of Frickley Athletic FC, Frickley Athletic FC had a terrific season in 2005/2006 and the GMB Union is keen to help the club and its surrounding community move forwards once more.
	www.pennocks.freeserve.co.uk /gmbpr.html (567 words)

	GMB - Lancashire Region
		Appointments with Dharmista are to be arranged and conducted at the GMB offices at 22 Wellington Street, St Johns, Blackburn, BB1 8AF.
		The GMB has an alternative vision for Burnley where every child will be born with equal opportunities and be able to live in peace and prosperity.
		As many of you may have seen the company has refused to comment on this issue and the GMB believe this stance of being negative is designed to delay the inevitable conclusion of GMB recognition.
	www.gmbunionlancs.com /time.html (546 words)

	TRADE UNION NEWS
		The GMB union is calling upon HSE to investigate all 57,000 serious accidents following consideration of the findings of the Select Committee on Environment.
		In a statement issued at the GMB Northern Region Safety Representatives conference, GMB General Secretary John Edmonds stated that: "Employers are legally required to protect their workforce.
		IPMS, along with other major unions and the TUC, is calling for all employers to develop and implement a stress policy statement and to investigate existing levels of stress within their organisations.
	www.mike.everley.freeuk.com /shp/Shpmay20.html (1028 words)

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		GMB Protest To Lancaster University At Professor Short Listing AA For Award For Sacking Disabled Staff In Private Equity Asset Strip
		Congress TV Welcome to GMB Congress TV Visit GMB Congress TV and see and hear the major speeches from General Secretary Paul Kenny 4th June AM, Labour Party Deputy Leadership Hustings with all six candidates 4th June,PM.
	www.gmb.org.uk /Templates/Internal.asp (332 words)

	GMB needs more democracy \| Workers' Liberty
		On 7 April Kevin Curran resigned as General Secretary of the GMB union, to be replaced as acting General Secretary by the man whom he defeated in the election for the job two years, Paul Kenny.
		Input to the GMB congress and the Executive is effectively controlled by the regional structures.
		In the closure of the GMB’s National College, a big issue in the union, it was the Regional Secretaries who made the decision, not the Curran leadership, although Curran went along with it because the finances were not there.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/4061 (1311 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Harassment at work - Call to expel Parker from GMB union
		Insiders said activists across the country were angry that the union has spent nearly £250,000 defending Mr Parker and that he has been allowed to stand down while still collecting a further 12 months wages, which have been estimated at about £50,000.
		Raymond Williamson, the solicitor representing the GMB, said he has been "instructed to continue" with the McAvoy case and that rumours that the organisation might settle the claim are nothing more than speculation.
		A spokesman for the GMB said that the union had not, as yet, received any calls for Mr Parker’s membership of the union to be rescinded.
	business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=785&id=300472003 (930 words)

	FAQs - Union Rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In addition, the union has to give the employer at least 7 days written notice before the ballot opens; and again after the ballot but before the industrial action begins.
		If we the union disobey the injunction, the union and its officials could be in contempt of court.
		All GMB courses are carefully designed to increase the chance of paid time off, so always consult your Regional Education Officer.
	www.gmb-westmids.org.uk /gmb/id39.html (1221 words)

	GMB pulls out of ‘super union’ merger talks
		Consequently, at the union’s annual conference on 11–15 June 2006, the council recommended to delegates that the GMB should continue ‘to develop a new union … but this we will do independently at this time’.
		The GMB General Secretary, Paul Kenny, reportedly told delegates that there was a ‘massive hunger’ for change and success within the union.
		Despite the GMB’s decision, the other two unions are to continue with their projected merger.
	eurofound.europa.eu /eiro/2006/08/articles/uk0608039i.html (647 words)

	Union: 'Supermarkets must stop dehumanising staff' - Mobile & Wireless - Breaking Business and Technology News at ...
		General workers union GMB said it wants supermarket distribution depots to stop 'dehumanising' staff by electronically tracking and timing each task they perform.
		Paul Kenny, the GMB's acting general secretary, said: "The GMB is no Luddite organisation but we will not stand idly by to see our members reduced to automatons.
		The GMB said the devices have put pressure on workers as the computers track how long it takes people to move from place to place - even, for example, leaving their job to go to the toilet.
	networks.silicon.com /mobile/0,39024665,39131025,00.htm (594 words)

	Society \| GMB union leader Curran suspended
		Kevin Curran, the leader of the GMB - one of the country's biggest trade unions - was tonight suspended from office by the union's executive.
		The GMB recently launched an official inquiry into claims of ballot-rigging during Mr Curran's election and appointed a QC to lead the investigation.
		The executive, meeting in London, is believed to have demanded an apology from Mr Curran but he refused and was suspended.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5148794-105910,00.html (260 words)

	TRADE UNION NEWS
		The GMB union is rising to the Government's occupational health challenge of reducing work related disease through mobilisation of their 25,000 safety representatives to help control chemical hazards in the workplace.
		The union publication covers: chemical hazards, routes of entry into the body, the legal position and the role of safety representatives in relation to chemical safety.
		The union is concerned over how the employer is intending to take action to prevent near misses and less serious accidents from becoming serious time-off-work accidents, when they will no longer know about them.
	www.mike.everley.freeuk.com /shp/Shpsep20.html (1223 words)

	Asda depot workers vote to recognise GMB union - 24/11/2006 - Personnel Today
		Asda workers in two distribution depots have overwhelmingly voted to recognise the GMB union at the workplace.
		These two ballots are the first to be held under the agreement reached between GMB and the company in June.
		Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary, said: "This exercise has been a great success for GMB, for Asda and most of all for the employees at Chepstow and Erith depots.
	www.personneltoday.com /Articles/2006/11/24/38274/asda-depot-workers-vote-to-recognise-gmb-union.html (338 words)

	The AA
		GMB wishes to congratulate Bob for all his efforts in raising funds and awareness for such a worthy charity.
		GMB PRESS CONFERENCE IN LEICESTER AS PART OF THE CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE VENTURE CAPITALISTS ASSET STRIPPING THE AA Leicester born Damon Buffini and fellow venture capitalists to be called to account with national AA roadshow.
		GMB is staging demonstations on March 8th 2006 outside the AA offices in Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Newcastle and Basingstoke.
	gmb.live.poptech.coop /Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=91798 (2085 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| GMB union boss Curran 'suspended'
		GMB boss Kevin Curran has been suspended by his union's executive, it is understood.
		It is understood that Mr Curran said he was carrying out the union's instructions but the executive wanted an apology which the GMB boss refused and he was suspended on full pay until the inquiry is completed in several weeks time.
		Members of the executive accused him of attempting to interfere with the inquiry, adding they had been left with no choice but to suspend him after having made it clear at an earlier stage Mr Curran was not to play any part in the probe.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/4352037.stm (185 words)

	e-Government: 2004 Spending Review: GMB Union response
		The GMB is a general union of 700,000 people of whom nearly 40% are women.
		The union today is the sum of a number of mergers of longstanding trades unions covering several production and service sectors and trades.
		That is why the Union's name is now just the letters "GMB" and is referred to as "Britain's General Union".
	www.publictechnology.net /print.php?sid=1377 (211 words)

	Fishupdate.com: Union sounds warning over food industry crisis
		The GMB Union has called for urgent talks with Birds Eye bosses to allay the fears of the workforce because it claims Permira has a history of asset stripping, but so far no announcement has been made.
		The GMB Union says: "These decisions are made as part of global plans, based on a mixture of lower wage costs and lack of investment in UK plant, buildings and technology.
		The union is demanding that the Labour Conference calls on the Government to meet with the food and fish manufacturers and the unions to develop a strategy for investment in order to maintain food manufacturing in the UK.
	www.fishupdate.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/5380/Union_sounds_warning_over_food_industry__crisis.html (497 words)

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		The 19th-21st September was the forth National GMB Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Networking Weekend held at the historic GMB College in Mancester.
		Overall, the GMB LGBT Network is a good form of networking with members from all regions, sharing and gaining information and knowledge, looking at policy changes, and understanding and exploring problems.
		The GMB Congress meeting in Blackpool was an incredible sight for the unfamiliar eye at conferences on this scale.
	members.lycos.co.uk /gmblgbt/newpage1.html (1397 words)

	GMB statement to amicus employees
		The GMB wanted to obtain more information regarding the “mothballing” of the College and meet with members.
		Domestic staff start and finish early so they did not hear the news until their next return to work. This was ill-judged and combined with subsequent events highlights the apparent contempt with which employees of Amicus are treated.
		On the day of the meeting the GMB was informed that the “serious issues” effected the Education Department as well (but interestingly not the Regional Centre which is in the same part of the building).
	www.btinternet.com /~davidbeaumont/msf/gmbstate.html (665 words)

	GMB union to 'electronically picket' Asda \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		As the Wal-Mart-owned firm braces itself for the announcement of a strike ballot on Wednesday, the GMB union is promising it will place surveillance cameras outside up to 20 major Asda warehouses to ascertain the identity of staff in the event of industrial action.
		If the group is found to be hiring labour to counter a strike, the GMB has threatened legal action against employment agencies under 2004 regulations designed to stop companies breaking strikes using 'scab' labour.
		The GMB claims that Asda is the only UK supermarket not to engage in collective bargaining and says it has failed to pay a bonus to staff despite making hundreds of millions of pounds of profit.
	www.guardian.co.uk /supermarkets/story/0,,1800055,00.html (440 words)

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